32 Araba Street, Aranda ACT 2614

Set on a beautiful, treed block - substantially larger than blocks in the new suburbs - you wouldn?t know you were even in a city, let alone just a few minutes from the heart of the nation?s capital.

This grand, architect-designed, family home captures the very essence of why people love Aranda? plenty of space mixed with the natural beauty of gum trees and Australian flora. There are neighbouring homes, of course, but you?d hardly think so as the home backs reserve space and gives a real country feel. The whole area exudes tranquillity.

This home is genuinely an entertainer?s delight, having a separate, large lounge room with its own wet bar - perfect for pre-dinner drinks and mingling. The dining room is enormous - providing plenty of space for elegant formal dinner parties - and leads out onto a spacious balcony with a view across the delightful, in-ground pool.

The family room also opens onto the balcony, though from a different direction, and flows through to the sizeable kitchen. Here a generous, 40mm thick, granite kitchen bench includes a breakfast bar to enable friends to sit and chat with the family chef while preparing a meal. Quality appliances adorn the kitchen and complete the picture. Both the corner pantry and the fridge space are cavernous to suit the needs of a hungry, growing family.

All four bedrooms on the upper level feature multiple built-in wardrobes, with the main bedroom also featuring a sizeable ensuite with a double-sink vanity and a roomy shower.

The decadent main bathroom is huge and features a large, freestanding bath, an enormous mirror, a separate, built-in dressing table and a vanity. There is another full bathroom downstairs, adjacent to the study ? which could be used as a 5th bedroom if required. This study/5th bedroom has its own external access via a sliding glass door to the front of the home and also offers internal access to the lock-up garage.

Beyond the garage, and accessible through a door at the end, is a large amount of under-house storage space including a workshop area and a wine cellar with capacity to store over 300 bottles of wine. Outside, the suspended-concrete-slab entertaining balcony serves as a carport. There is additional off-street parking beside the meandering driveway.

The gardens have been extensively landscaped and include stone retaining walls and an adorable pond with a water feature. Tall brick walls provide privacy for the in-ground swimming pool and create an oasis of serenity from the hustle and bustle of the busy world.

Reverse-cycle air conditioning will conveniently and efficiently keep the home at your preferred temperature throughout the year at the press of a button.

With 5 bedrooms, 4 toilets, 3 bathrooms, a large formal lounge room with a wet bar, an enormous dining room, a family room, a sizeable kitchen, a roomy entertaining balcony, a lock-up garage with internal access, a carport, an in-ground pool ? all set on a large block in the highly desirable suburb of Aranda and backing reserve ? this home may well seem like an unattainable wish-list of great features. The good news is that it DOES exist and you CAN make it yours. But don?t delay.